Our group welcomes four graduate students: Aida Taravatfard and Zarya Rajestari – Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) students have started their first year of doctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine – they will be specializing in the advanced medical diagnostics on the centrifugal microfluidic (CD) platforms; Snehan Peshin (MAE) and Alfonso Shin (Biomedical Engineering) have been graduate students of BioMEMs Lab for three years and they are bringing their experience and expertise to BiNoM lab now due to retirement of Prof. Marc Madou – Snehan specializing in mass transport on CD platforms and he is now combining the analysis of mass transport with reaction kinetics, while Alfonso is developing a new type of fast and sensitive biological test for viral infections (including the development of COVID-19 assay).